La Befana

1821

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Artist, Italian, 1781 - 1835

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 32.1 × 41.3 cm (12 5/8 × 16 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 41.7 × 54.4 cm (16 7/16 × 21 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.587

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Della Rocchetta 1956, no. 168, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased July 3, 1976; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1956

  • Della Rocchetta, Giovani Incisa. Bartolomeo Pinelli. Rome, 1956: no. 168, only

Inscriptions

in image, at top center: VENITE BEFANARI / CHE E VENUTA / LA BEFANA; below image, at left: Pinelli dis. e. inc.; below image, at center: La Befana Costume in Roma, il mese de Gennajo; below image, at right: Roma 1821

Wikidata ID

Q76557250

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